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is now available online through the site
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Gather maps, texts, photos, recordings and films of all time and explain the jewels in seven languages \u200b\u200band cultural relics of all libraries in the world.
has mainly economic nature, predicted yesterday NATION Abdelaziz Abid, coordinator of the project launched Porla Unesco and other 32 institutions.
The BDM does not provide standard documents, but "with heritage value, that will appreciate and better understand the cultures of the world in different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, English and Portuguese. But there are documents online in over 50 languages. "
"Among the oldest documents are some codices, thanks to the contribution of Mexico, and early American maps, drawn by Diego Gutierrez for the King of Spain in 1562," explained Abid .
Hyakumanto The treasures include darani, a Japanese document published in the year 764 and is considered the first printed text of the story, work Arab scientists to unveil the mystery of algebra; bones used as oracles and Chinese steles, the Gutenberg Bible, old photos Latin National Library of Brazil and the famous Devil's Bible, the thirteenth century, dela National Library of Sweden.
is easy to navigate.
Each piece of the universal culture appears accompanied by a brief explanation of its contents and its meaning. The documents were
scanned and incorporated in its original language, but the explanations appear in seven languages, including THE SPANISH.
The library started with about 1,200 documents, but has been designed to receive an unlimited number of texts, engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations.
How to access the global site?
Although it will be officially launched today at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the World Digital Library is available on the Internet, using the search site www.wdl.org
Access is free and users can directly enter the web without having to register.
explanations proposed system in seven languages \u200b\u200b(Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, English and Portuguese). The documents, meanwhile, have been scanned in their original language.
With a simple click, you can turn the pages of a book, zoom the text and move in all directions. The excellent image definition allows for convenient and thorough reading.
Among the gems it contains by far the BDM is the Declaration of American Independence and the Constitutions of many countries, a sixteenth-century Japanese text considered the first impression of the history, the Diary of a Venetian scholar who accompanied Ferdinand Magellan in his voyage around the world, the original of the "Fables" of La Fontaine, the first book in the Philippines in English and Tagalog, the Gutenberg Bible, and some African paintings A date of 8000. C.
Two regions of the world are particularly well represented: Latin America and the Middle East. This is due to the active participation of the Brazilian National Library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt and King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia.
The structure was modeled BDM project to digitize the Library of Congress, which began in 1991 and currently contains 11 million documents online.
Its makers claim that the BDM is primarily intended for researchers, teachers and students. But the importance of this site goes far beyond incitement to study the new generations living in a world of broadcasting. This project is not a simple online compendium of history: the ability to access, intimately and without time limit, the specimen invaluable, unapproachable, only that everyone has ever dreamed to know.
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